Scholarships

Our scholarships are designed to help bring more diversity of all kinds into the children's literature field and are currently offered to folks who identify as LBGQTI, having a disability, being a person of color, or being low income. In addition,we also invite SCBWI RAs, ARAs, and ICs to apply, whether or not they identify with the above, because they do so much for our community.Please peruse our past and current offerings. To get first notice of these opportunities, please sign up for our not too frequent butoften helpful newsletter here.

About Diversity in Children's Publishing

While we offer scholarships to all individuals who identify as being in the groups mentioned above, the statistics on racial representation in children's books are incredibly disheartening. And while some folks (i.e. Anglo people) genuinely believe that we've moved beyond this into a color-blind society, the reality of this is simply not true. The Children's Book Academy is also proud to be a supporter of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign!

There are so many blog posts out there about this issue. I recently met with some editors in NY and learned something super interesting. There are two main reasons that publishers are not publishing the kinds of books that we all need to truly help get to a color blind society. Not enough people buy diverse children's books and many people of color who have not had the kinds of educational opportunities that middle class folks have had, with 2 generations or more of university graduates behind them, don't always have the skills needed. Hence these scholarships and a request to help support diversity by buying diverse books. :)